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Sixth Postgraduate Session at the Museum
The sixth session in the postgraduate course on Totalitarianism, Nazism, and the Holocaust, organized by the Museum’s International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust, was held from July 3 to 11.
For the first time in the seven-year history of the course, students had a chance to learn about several other memorial sites in Poland besides Auschwitz. They toured Tarnów, Bełżec, the Majdanek Museum in Lublin, the Museum in Włodawa, and the site of the Sobibór camp.They were given a detailed look at the research, exhibition, commemorative, and especially the educational activities at these places. In Tarnów, they visited the Ethnographic Museum (dedicated to the history and culture of the Romany community), the city, and the place from where the first Polish political prisoners were deported to Auschwitz.
In Bełżec, they visited a museum display and the newly commemorated death camp site. A whole day was devoted to the oldest Polish martyrdom museum, the State Museum at Majdanek in Lublin. They spent the last day of their three-day field trip examining the history and landmarks of Jewish culture in Włodawa and the vicinity, and learning about the problems faced by the Memorial in Sobibór.
The remaining six days of the session were mostly taken up by lectures and workshops in Oświęcim. On the last day, the ambassador of Israel in Poland, David Peleg, visited the course. On Tuesday, July 12, the 30 students, most of them teachers, began their well deserved summer vacation.
